{"product_id":"alice-dunbar-nelson-a-short-story-collection-audiobook","title":"Alice Dunbar Nelson - A Short Story Collection (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Dunbar Nelson - A Short Story Collection (Audiobook)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Machelle Williams, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow(Unabridged: 02:08mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAlice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community.  She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led to her becoming a teacher at a public school in New Orleans.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1895, when she was 20, she published her first collection of short stories and poems, ‘Violets and Other Tales’, and moved to New York City where she co-founded and taught at the White Rose Mission, a Home for Girls.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice was always politically active and sought to advance the position of black women.  She began work as a journalist at the Woman’s Era newspaper where her work was seen by the established poet and journalist Paul Laurence Dunbar.  After corresponding for two years she joined him in Washington DC and they married in 1898.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a difficult relationship, due mainly to Dunbar’s fragile health, alcoholism and depression.  After a severe beating she left him and moved to Delaware to teach for a decade though took time out to enroll at Cornell University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA short-lived marriage to Henry A. Callis, a physician and professor at Howard University ended in divorce and she became co-editor and writer for an influential publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.  A third marriage to civil rights activist Robert J. Nelson came about, as did affairs with several women, notably the activist Fay Jackie Robinson.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Wilmington Delaware she and her husband devoted their time and writings to working for equality for African Americans and women’s suffrage.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice Dunbar Nelson was a natural and gifted writer across many genres, from novels, essays, plays to diaries, criticism, poetry and of course short stories, of which ‘Stones in the Village’ is a fine example.  The protagonist, like herself, is light skinned from New Orleans, which allows for a social mobility and a unique position in American society that Dunbar Nelson captures with an imagination and insight to explores another divisive perspective on race.  It is unsurprising that Alice was a prominent part of the early Harlem Renaissance and influenced many others including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlice and her husband moved to Philadelphia in 1932 and it was here that she died on 18th September 1935, at the age of 60, from a heart ailment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43435547295822,"sku":"AB-73260","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781806373260.jpg?v=1785418472","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/alice-dunbar-nelson-a-short-story-collection-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}